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Two dead in mystery Swedish village fire

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Two dead in mystery Swedish village fire
Emergency services at the scene on Monday night. Photo: Johan Nilsson

UPDATED: Police in southern Sweden are investigating a fire at a house in the village of Kågeröd that left two people dead on Monday night.

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Emergency services said they found two bodies inside the large house after they were called out to the property in Kågeröd in Skåne at around 9pm.

Jimmy Modin, a communications officer, told the TT news agency: “They were pronounced dead on the spot and have yet to be idenfitied.”

According to the newswire, neighbours raised the alarm after spotting flames and smoke bursting out of a window.

Emergency response teams from three local municipalities took part in the operation to put out the fire, which destroyed the building. 


Emergency services at the scene. Photo:  Johan Nilsson

The blaze also damaged a neighbouring property.

“It is filled with smoke, but there is no fire damage,” Lennart Linderos, a firefighter, told regional newspaper Sydsvenskan.

Police said the cause of the fire was still being investigated. 

Situated on the edge of a forest, Kågeröd village is home to just 1,500 residents. 

It is just a kilometre away from Knutstorp, one of Sweden’s most famous race tracks.

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